Nature Experiences and Adults’ Self-Reported Pro-environmental Behaviors: The Role of Connectedness to Nature and Childhood Nature Experiences

Rosa, Claudio D.; Profice, Christiana Cabicieri; Collado, Sílvia

doi:10.3389/fpsyg.2018.01055

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“…Utilizing nature relatedness scales opens up a door to provider-patient discourse on possible routes to health and vitality (determining how much active/passive time a patient spends in the outdoors, and the writing of "Green Prescriptions" [124][125][126]); since nature relatedness is also associated with pro-environmental and pro-social attitudes and behaviors-likely because experience in/with the natural world promotes concern for planetary health [127][128][129][130]-assessments allow for discussions concerning a collective "treatment" of personal and global problems, actively engaging both clinician and patient in planetary health [131]. Clinicians now have an opportunity to track nature relatedness with functional aspects of health.…”

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Clinical Ecology—Transforming 21st-Century Medicine with Planetary Health in Mind

Nelson¹,

Prescott

Logan³

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Four decades ago, several health movements were sprouting in isolation. In 1980, the environmental group Friends of the Earth expanded the World Health Organization definition of health, reminding citizenry that, “health is a state of complete physical, mental, social and ecological well-being and not merely the absence of disease—personal health involves planetary health”. At the same time, a small group of medical clinicians were voicing the concept of “clinical ecology”—that is, a perspective that sees illness, especially chronic illness, as a response to the total lived experience and the surroundings in which “exposures” accumulate. In parallel, other groups advanced the concept of holistic medicine. In 1977, the progressive physician-scientist Jonas Salk stated that “we are entering into a new Epoch in which holistic medicine will be the dominant model”. However, only recently have the primary messages of these mostly isolated movements merged into a unified interdisciplinary discourse. The grand, interconnected challenges of our time—an epidemic of non-communicable diseases, global socioeconomic inequalities, biodiversity losses, climate change, disconnect from the natural environment—demands that all of medicine be viewed from an ecological perspective. Aided by advances in ‘omics’ technology, it is increasingly clear that each person maintains complex, biologically-relevant microbial ecosystems, and those ecosystems are, in turn, a product of the lived experiences within larger social, political, and economic ecosystems. Recognizing that 21st-century medicine is, in fact, clinical ecology can help clear an additional path as we attempt to exit the Anthropocene.

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Section: Practical Implicationsmentioning

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Clinical Ecology—Transforming 21st-Century Medicine with Planetary Health in Mind

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Prescott

Logan³

et al. 2019

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“…Children who are spending more time playing indoors, watching TV, or playing video games have a lower implicit connectedness to nature (Bruni and Schultz, 2010). Children develop connection to nature through positive nature experiences and the time spent in nature as a child is an important predictor for the time spent outside later in life (Rosa et al, 2018). On the other hand, time spent outdoors leads to increased connection with nature (Schultz and Tabanico, 2007;Kaiser et al, 2008;Andrejewski et al, 2011;Dornhoff et al, 2019).…”

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Exploring the Construct of Relational Values: An Empirical Approach

Kleespies

Dierkes

2020

Front. Psychol.

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In recent environmental research, relational values (RVs) have emerged as a new group of values to explain environmental behavior. Although this new concept is attracting attention, empirical studies on the subject are still rare. On this basis, we have conducted three studies to analyze an existing measurement tool for RVs and compared the construct with the concept of connection to nature. In study 1, we confirmed convergent and discriminant validity of the RV scale by comparing it with the Two Factor Model of Environmental Values (2-MEV) model using a sample of n = 350 university students. Additionally, study 1 verified reliability using test-retest reliability on three different groups of students (n 1 = 53; n 2 = 37; n 3 = 48). In study 2, principal component analyses were performed to examine the structure of RVs and to compare it to the concept of connection to nature by reusing the sample 350 university students from study 1. The results show that RVs and connection to nature are not fundamentally distinct constructs, but overlap. However, if the structure of the RV measurement is forced to a single factor, no perfect fit is found, making a multidimensional solution more likely. A third study was conducted to review the results from study 2 using confirmatory factor analysis on a new sample of 878 university and high school students. Study 3 confirmed RVs as a multidimensional construct with three factors: care, community, and connection. It also proved the overlap of the connection to nature and RV concepts to some extent. Keywords: relational values, connectedness to nature, connectedness to nature scale, scale validation, environmental behavior, two factor model of environmental values model Frontiers in Psychology | www.frontiersin.org Frontiers in Psychology | www.frontiersin.org

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“…The two main driving forces behind this move centre around sustainability, with an emotional connection to nature as a motivational factor towards conservation [4,5], and wellbeing [6,7]. Childhood, including early childhood (0-8 years of age) is often considered to play a pivotal role in the creation of an ecological identity and the development of a positive relationship with nature [8] and that association has been supported by several recent studies [9][10][11]. This has led to nature connection being a key desirable outcome of environmental education programmes [12], outdoor education programmes [13], and even early childhood education as a whole [14].…”

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Nature Connection in Early Childhood: A Quantitative Cross-Sectional Study

Barrable

Booth

2020

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There have been calls to reconnect children with nature, both for their own wellbeing, as well as for ecological sustainability. This has driven the growth of outdoor and nature-schools for all ages, but especially in the early childhood education sector. However, to date, there has not been a quantitative study that looks at whether these settings actually promote nature connection. This paper aims to examine the role of nature nurseries in the promotion of connection to nature, when compared to traditional nurseries. Data were collected on the nature connection, using the Connection to Nature Index for Parents of Preschool Children, of 216 children aged 1–8 years, 132 of whom attended nature nurseries while the rest attended traditional nurseries. Duration and frequency of attendance, sex, and parental nature connection were also reported. Statistical analyses were conducted for overall nature connection scores, individual dimension sub-scores and, for the children who attended nature nursery, against predictors. Results indicate that attending a nature nursery is associated with higher nature connection. Predictors for children’s connection to nature were parental nature connection, and total time spent in attendance of an outdoor nursery. This suggests a dose-response style relationship between attendance and nature connection. Implications for real-life applications are put forward and further research directions are explored.

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Nature Experiences and Adults’ Self-Reported Pro-environmental Behaviors: The Role of Connectedness to Nature and Childhood Nature Experiences

Cited by 247 publications

References 67 publications

Clinical Ecology—Transforming 21st-Century Medicine with Planetary Health in Mind

Clinical Ecology—Transforming 21st-Century Medicine with Planetary Health in Mind

Exploring the Construct of Relational Values: An Empirical Approach

Nature Connection in Early Childhood: A Quantitative Cross-Sectional Study

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